Muhammad Youssef Abdulazeez

Muhammad Youssef Abdulazeez (5 September 1990-16 July 2015) was a Jordanian-American citizen who was the perpetrator of the 2015 Chattanooga shootings, killing 5 soldiers of the US Army and US Navy before he was killed by the police.

Biography
Muhammad Youssef Abdulazeez was born on 5 September 1990 in Kuwait to a Jordanian family of Palestinian descent. He immigrated to the United States at the age of 6, and when his parents became citizens, he also gained citizenship. From 2003 to 2014, he visited Jordan five times, and travelled to Kuwait one time in 2008. He graduated from Red Bank High School in Hixson, Tennessee, and in 2012 he earned an engineering degree at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga. He was an intern with the Tennessee Valley Authority, managing electrical power systems.

In April 2015, his only encounter with law enforcement was being arrested for being arrested for drunk driving. Around that time, he began to regularly attend Friday prayers at a mosque, and eventually became a radical. Days before the shooting, he wrote a blog post that urged the study of the Quran as a meaning to life, and he noted that the sahabah of Muhammad fought jihad for Allah. On 16 July 2015, using an AK-47, shotgun, and a handgun, he killed 5 service members of the US Military seven miles apart at the Armed Forces Career Center and a naval reserve center, and he wounded 2. Responding police officers at the naval reserve center killed him with multiple gunshots, ending the spree shooting.